johnson junior high school after a toxic spill in the schools gym 13 action news reporter marti glaser fast and first to the scene and joins us live. marti what's the latest? emergency crews have confirmed ...mercury ..about the amount u would find in an old thermometer is the cause of what officials are calling a soft lock down. students are not allowed to enter or leave the school for leaving many parents like anna lewis shaken i want to keep them safe i trust the school district but you want to be there to protect them. tag officials say about 6- 7 kids were exposed and their parents have been notified. ccsd police says the main concern is keeping kids safe .

early dismissal. more breaking news now in just moments north las vegas police will hold a news conference where they'll give us an update on now re-captured murder suspect alonso perez. this is a live look at the north las vegas detective bureau where that conference will begin just minutes from now. you may remember -- perez escaped from north las veg he is accused of shooting and killing a man back in august. police spent five days looking for him and only captured him late last night. again -- north las vegas police are about to start a news conference and will bring it to you live when they begin. you can always get the latest updates on ktnv dot com. good afternoon --i'm carla wade. let's now turn to 13 first alert chief meteorologist bryan scofield. bryan many are wondering --

here? by tomorrow, high temperatures will break into the triple digits for central las vegas but just barely and hold there into sunday. pick up and a 10-20 mph wind will be common along with an occasional gust between 25 and 35 mph. as we move into the next work week, a cold front passes through bringing temperatures back down into the low and mid 90s and potentially the upper 80s! as for tropical storm newton, it is still moving fast at 18 mph towards the it made landfall on mexico's mainland late last night and southern arizona, including tucson and has been getting rain ever since! flooding, loss of power, down power lines and trees will be a major concern for everyone living within southern arizona as a whole. the rain should continue through thursday afternoon! right now -- two armed and potentially dangerous robbery suspects are on the run in the valley. before the sun was even up -- a pair of thieves already had a

in total there were four businesses that were hit this is just one of them police say there were two attempted robberies and then two actual robberies take vo in every case not much was taken sometimes a few dollars in one case just a few cigarettes police say these people had guns and in one case they fired those thankfully no one got hurt. take sot 21-30 alex alex cunanan, sicily's pizza :16 actually the day before... got robbed the next day." :24 all in all the crimes were and police spent most of the morning looking for these people there could have been a third person acting as the getaway driver near decatur and oakey parker collins 13 action news. 32-40 parker trt=43 soc chopper 13 fast and first earlier today as two men are arrested in connection to a robbey at raising canes. this happened near charleston and decatur around 6-30 this morning... metro tells us they were responding to a burglary alarm

we're told the investigation is still in the early stages. right now, metro wants to get this guy off the streets. they say he robbed two businesses at gunpoint on august 29th near durango and desert inn. he got away with some cash and merchandise. if you recognize the suspect or have information, call police. right now about 20 people are homeless after fire destroyed them. chopper 13 fast and first over the scene this morning with a this is near serene and las vegas boulevard at an apartment complex there. our crews were there as flames shot into the air... firefighters told our photographer he couldn't get too close because the building might have asbestos inside. coming up in our second half hour -- hear from a pregnant woman....now looking for a new place to live right now.. metro is on the lookout for

double homicide in the northwest valley. 2 men were shot just after 6 last night. it happened in the parking lot of an apartment complex near torrey pines and smoke ranch. police say the victims were rushed to the hospital but died from their injuries. metro is looking for several men who they consider suspects. they think this shooting could be gang related. neighbors we talked to say the area has gotten so bad..they see police around every night. details - vo we're uncovering chilling in henderson. police tell us the wife was trying to get away from the shooter. she was in the process of moving out of her anthem highlands home. but, when she went back to the home to get some of her stuff, her husband killed her before turning the gun on himself. the woman leaves behind 2 children, ages 14 and 9. her identity hasn't been released. in your voice your vote this afternoon -- hillary clinton has two new major endorsements

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college campus is drawing outrage! this is the flyer we're talking about. what african american students say it means to them...and what the university is saying. then -- an hours-long police chase ends in a fiery way and it's all caught on camera! what happens after the suspect crashes his car into a pole. remember chopper 13 is bringing you breaking news fast and

update on that escaped murder suspect. will rele you have to see this next video! a police chase in los angeles ends with a suspect first crashing his car into a pole...and then that car catches fire! you can see the man crashing into a pole and then drag it for sevral feet. he then jumps out of the car and falls face down on the

police have not said what charges he could face. check this out -- this flyer is causing outrage on the northern kentucky university campus. as you can see it reads "welcome white week". students say it's a mockery of welcome black week, which is a series of events for incoming freshmen that focus on the black experience. african american students say they feel like they're being made fun of.

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>> now, we are going to live that they press conference with the north las vegas police about murder suspect alanzo president right president -- perez right now. >> i will run us through a series of events that brought utto the recapture of alanzo perez last night. after that recap i will direct you to the screen where we will play a video for you depicting

form and also upclose pictures of what was left after alanzo's escape. this started back on august 27th at about 11:45 on the block of las vegas boulevard and paycheckose. it was an escalated into the shooting which took the life of muhammed robinson a 31-year-old man. he was transport today he later succumbed to his injuries. we identified a suspect alanzo perez who was arrested on august august 22nd. they arrested alanzo and brought him back to the detective bury where we took custody of him. at that time he was placed in an interview room, handcuffed to an

unfamiliar to the within to my right, except it's affixed with a half moon steel metal bar to handcuff a detainee, too. alanzo has a cuff on his right hand and the other cuff is on the half moon pipe if you will. at 12:06 you will notice in the vide point using his body weight that he snaps the hinges. he positioned himself back at the desk at the table as if nothing happened. he keeps his wrists in place. there's contact from one of the detectives 20, 25 minutes later. he's still in position, nothing is noticed, we move on. after about 15 minutes after that encounter, which is about

to get out of the building, takes a chair puts it against the wall, knocks out a few ceiling tiles, climbs into the rafters and exits the building towards the west of our location right now. he heads out about call it 100 yards, where he finds an unoccupied truck, ford 250, it's running, he jumps in and makes his get away and that was last contact w last night. understand that we are very, very aware that the mistakes were made. with that we have taken steps to ensure that it doesn't happen again, both in policy and procedure in a directive that was put out this week by the division captain. we are not perfect.

perfect, however we will learn from our mistakes so they are not repeated and that's the goal. we have been in communication with the robinson family directly when the escape happened and also soon after his capture and they have been exceptional with us and that's been really appreciated. the... i will turn your attention over to the video and then we will get into some

>> once again we are looking live at this press conference from the north los vegas police. they are playing some surveillance video. this is showing the escape of ulanso perez from north los vegasong fridays. he was able handcuffs off using his body weight. he sits there at the table. at a different point he's finally able to sneak out of that interrogation room and the chief telling us he climbed out of a ceiling rafters out of a one. he found an f150 and able to make his escape in that truck. this press conference going on right now showing the surveillance video to all

he's keeping his hand down, keeping his hand in the same position after he already used his body weight in order to free himself. there you see he's gone. he's making his way out. that's the point where you see him leave the frame there and that's the point where the chief talks a out of the building by climbing up a ceiling rafter. he's climbb upward through the ceiling. you see the holes in the ceiling, that's how he was able to mock his escape from north los vegas police custody on friday. he found the truck outside the building made his get away and was gone for five days.

to free himself from custody after five days. that's a picture of alanzo perez. >> we will jump back into the questions. we want to praise the fbi cat team. they are an exceptional group and worked tirelessly since his escape to help get him back into custody. we are very grateful with the partnerships we have with our federal well as local agencies. they have done an exceptional job. we have had a lot of late nights and late communications and they were exceptional. understand that i made the decision to hold off a press conference longer than maybe we might have due to fact that they

sometimes the extra attention after the initial broadcast that we need to get out of there for general awareness and public safety can cloud the investigatory line they are working and it made off. it paid dividends. we are excited about that, but we are here today and we will take your questions. >> was someone monitoring perez? what were the specific mistakes you >> that was the north los vegas police chief giving a life update on that escape suspect. police showing us new video

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